Sailfish OS 2.1.4 Lapuanjoki is now available to early access. See Blog or TJC.

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Release notes 2.1.4 / Lapuanjoki

Update version history

2018-02-20: 2.1.4.13 was released to Early Access subscribers. Japanese and Korean removed from the list of new languages (not yet quite ready).
2018-02-dd: 2.1.4.x to be released to all users (not Aqua Fish).

Size of update

The download size of the update depends on the device type and on the OS version currently in the device. Some typical values below:
- Jolla C from 2.1.3.7 to 2.1.4.13: 380 MB
- Jolla 1 from 2.1.3.7 to 2.1.4.13: 340 MB
- Xperia X from 2.1.3.7 to 2.1.4.13: 390 MB
Release Highlights

Updated Android Support of Xperia X from version 1.0.79-1 to 1.0.85-1 (no update for Jolla devices), fixing:
Add support for camera HAL introduced in Android 7.
Prepare for notification improvements.
Update device configurations.
Improve camera startup speed on Android 7 based devices.
Solved an issue where certain apps (i.e. Wechat) were unable to record voice messages.

Bluetooth

SyncML support dropped.

Browser

Browser cover no longer flickers during device orientation change.

Camera

Camera app is launched if shutter key is long-pressed (does not work on lock screen yet)
Photo details fixed for Camera photos stored in SD card.

Connectivity

WLAN: support for IEEE802.11r enabled. This brings the Fast Transition feature. It is meant to allow faster handoffs for a mobile station between two or more Access Points, a sort of handover for WLAN.
Homescreen crash fixed that sometimes happened when connecting to WLAN.

Device management (MDM)

Activation displays a disclaimer to user
Date and time API extended to support all time zones.

Email

Fix a crash when an attachment is opened second time
Fix search losing focus after backstepping from Email viewer
Downloaded attachments can now be picked as attachments for new emails.

New system languages: Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil), Slovenian, Spanish (Bolivia), Turkish.
Many thanks to you our valued community people for the translations!

Media

Show the correct playback state when the playlist playback stops
Order music albums by date released, instead of alphabetically.

Messages

Send button in Messages app touch area enlarged for easier use.

Middleware

Qt framework updated 5.6.3, including hundreds of bug fixes
Tracker updated to the latest V1 version to possibly fix some metadata extraction failures.

Notes

Search is now supported.

Notifications

Notification banners can now be swiped away with horizontal flick.

OS updates

PackageKit framework upgraded to newer version
OS updates are now a privileged operation run as proper system-side service
OS update process rewritten to reduce dependencies and thus potential causes of failures
OS update descriptions now support links.

Your device must be connected to the Internet and signed into your Jolla account. If your Jolla account is registered for Early Access releases you should receive an OS update notification when an update is available. If you have decided not to take the Early Access registration then you will get the OS update typically one week later.

We warmly recommend making some 3-4 GB of free space to the internal storage of your device before starting the update. Move your pictures and videos to the SD card (or to your PC or cloud service). After the upgrade turn on the option to save pictures and videos directly from the camera to the memory card (Settings > Apps > Camera). This is important particularly in case of "Jolla 1" devices (product name "Jolla" in Settings > About product).

This is the usual drill before attempting to update your devices:

Take a backup of your data before attempting to update your device and save the backup to an SD card or to some other off-device location (PC, your cloud service). Note that videos and images are not included in cloud-based backups. Do not reboot the device while the update is in progress. Do keep the phone connected to a battery charger during the whole process. Device screen may blank out during the update process; you may waken the display by a short press on the power key to monitor the progress.

This is necessary because 2.1.4 brings in the new PackageKit that has changed its API. Warehouse and Storeman are locked against the older version of the library. If they are not removed during the update, they block the upgrade of PackageKit-Qt5, which then breaks all further updates (Settings page would get stuck on 'Preparing update' and version --dup would fail with an InvalidArgs error).

Warehouse and Storeman can only be installed again after they switch to the new PackageKit API.

In addition, take the following advice into account:

If you use Phonehook or Callrecorder from OpenRepos, uninstall it before upgrading.
If you use oFono from OpenRepos, revert to the official oFono before upgrading.
If you use Patchmanager, revert all applied patches before upgrading.

Bluetooth pairing and audio connections may still fail in some circumstances
Utility "Clear tracker database" ("Refresh media database") is failing - will be fixed in update 2.2.0 (the next one)
VPN is still at beta level.

Known issues specific to Xperia X

Screenshots are placed to the end of the thumbnails list if Gallery app is open while taking the screenshot.
Issues with mobile data persist on some SIM cards
Xperia X does not power up due to an alarm
Manual network/carrier search lists all networks by the same name (the name of the SIM provider). Use automatic search. If not possible, you need to try several items in the manual search results, unfortunately. The top most item is not necessarily the one that can serve you. (still valid with most SIM cards)
VPN does not work.
Bluetooth: still problems with car equipment, some audio devices and computers.
Waking up the device by double-tap does not work
Loudspeaker volume level cannot be adjusted high enough (but echo cancellation was added to the audio path in 2.1.4)
Sensors:
not working: fingerprint, barometer, step counter.
compass (or gyro?) working in Google Maps, not yet natively.
Issues with video playback and video recording (less than before).
FM radio missing.
Even though all CPU cores get eventually enabled, foreground apps do not always run on the big cores.

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